A Brief History of Lab Notebooks

A series of quantitative metaphors on the speeds of representative events in evolutionary biology. The end of our three-part series.

How experimental recordings have changed, from the Renaissance through today.

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Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts.

How computer scientists on the fringes of biology made sense of sequencing data.

We tend to think of fermented foods as something humans invented and then chose to eat. But the evidence shows the opposite: fermented foods shaped human biology.